I.K.Akhunbaev Kyrgyz State Medical Academy

About the university

On April 16, 1939, a Resolution of the Council of Peoples Commissars of the Kyrgyz SSR was adopted, the first paragraph of which read as ?to open the Kyrgyz State Medical Institute in Frunze from September 1, 1939 with the recruitment of 200 students for 1 course?. The foundation of the first higher medical school was laid by professors and teachers from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kharkov and Kiev. In 1943 the first graduation of students of medical institute with amount of 120 doctors took place. The 1st Moscow, Leningrad, Alma-Ata, Tashkent and other medical institutions have shown invaluable assistance in the organization of the Institute. They provided consulting and organizational assistance, provided medical literature and sent teaching staff for permanent work at the Institute. The departments of History of the CPSU and political Economy, Normal anatomy, Biology, Histology, General chemistry, Physics, Foreign languages and others were organized, where 16 teachers worked. During the great Patriotic War, the 2nd Kharkiv medical and dental Institute and the Moscow dental Institute were evacuated to Kyrgyzstan, which joined the KSMI. The hardships of wartime hampered the work of the Institute. Terms of training were reduced to 4-4.5 years.